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Co2fine
Co2fine, the first multidevice app that aumomatically tracks your carbon footprint when you surf online.
Is also a community where you can invite friend and organize together to make Internet greener!
Route View - Traffic cameras along your route
The problem is in the syncing process. You can't sync if you've updated the app. This is especially problematic if you have more than one device. I can't sync with the computer because the older device will remove the app because it now only supports iOS6.
It's still the same thing it was when it came out, and that is: amazing. You're talking about a 10" handheld touchscreen with wifi and a battery that will last a month when sitting on the coffee table or bedside stand. It puts the entire internet at your fingertips and it can be used to do almost anything you want.

It's freaking Star Trek, but since it's 2 years old and it won't get some OS updates we think it's garbage now? It's the technology we had all been dreaming about for decades, since we were kids, made real. And now it's junk?

What a spoiled bunch we are.
Proof of concept Android malware creates 3D maps of your home
The mining and extraction of lithium and coltan requires massive amounts of water and energy [1][2]. In African countries with very little regulation, land, lakes, and rivers are polluted as a result of mining.

And what do we use it for? To produce some 15+ million million devices that are deprecated after two years.

Yes, that is tragic and a disaster for those countries. It's just that more attention is paid to events that unfold within days rather than years.

[1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/sustainable-business/carbon-footpr...
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coltan
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code @ github https://github.com/codeforamerica/route_view
Yes, it's a pretty biased article, but I don't mind. You know why? Because he's been pretty spot on. Anyone who's been watching Intel knows how misleading Intel can be (before anyone accuses me of being an AMD fanboi or something, I own a quad core i7 SNB laptop), and it's obvious ultrabooks will not get to the magical $700 price-point anytime soon (I'm thinking 3-4 years here).

Why not? Well, because while Intel keeps promising that, they have no intention of being themselves part of that price reduction. They have no intention of reducing their prices. So they want to put the whole responsibility on manufacturers. Unfortunately for them, manufacturers have to worry about more than just CPU's to be competitive with ultrabooks. They have to worry about having a quality and high-resolution display. They have to worry about having a fast and large amount SSD, and so on.

Why is it that the laptop/PC market has been considered non-innovative in the past compared to the smartphone/tablet market? Because all the focus has been on CPU's and that has helped Intel. But now people are starting to prioritize more than the CPU in their laptops. In fact the CPU may not even be their #1 or #2 priority anymore. A good display or a good SSD or high quality materials might be.

This sucks for Intel, as the their processors are becoming more than "good enough". ARM devices are "good enough" for most people in terms of performance (iPad's success is proof of that), and an Intel chip that is 10x more expensive will soon become irrelevant for most people. That price gap will just not be worth it to them.
Show HN: Summaries of interesting content, written by people
I'm curious as to what the upgrade situation is with Android devices and apps. Do developers just keep support for legacy versions in their apps? If so, do all the people sporting the new hotness have to put up with that.

On the Mac side of things, all those I've owned have kept up with OS upgrades surprisingly well, so I don't know that they should be bundled in with this. I'd sooner lose a hand that go back to a Windows laptop and I've had enough horror Linux upgrades to not want to go that way either (fine for my home server, but that doesn't get major updates, just security ones). Personal preference, anyway I guess. Good luck!
What a refreshing attitude - someone finds a way around the paywall and your response is - "oh yeah!? well our execution is better! And we'll prove it too!" I would love if it all companies took this approach instead of DRM/litigation. Hats off to you.
What? I'm pretty sure nobody (very few places?) in Europe accept USD.
How Much Energy a Smartphone Uses in a Year (And What it Means for Your Budget)
You're assuming he was making a nuanced argument and not just flashing gang signs.
Slimmer Hardware Warms Your Home With an App
>It's self evident that if you are offensive towards women, it's less likely they will participate in IT or Computer Science.

No it isn't.
This would have been really useful when I was learning Python on Udacity and was confused by the behavior of = and += on lists and tuples.

This should definitely be integrated into Udacity and other learning platforms! Most instructors have to do this by hand in CS 101 lectures anyways.
As I understand it (please correct me if I'm wrong), App.net users pay a yearly subscription to be a part of the service.

We'll get a far better reading of the service once that year is up. In my experience of using annual subscription services/products the hype tends to fizzle out when the core group decide whether their initial investment was worth it. Given its current state I doubt it'll topple its closed competitors in twelve months and I see a large section of its core users ditching it for the next flavour of the week.

It reminds me a lot of MyFootballClub, a website that bought a English football team in the lower leagues with the promise of the community being completely responsible for player contracts, transfers and day-to-day running of the football club. A lot of people coughed up the cash for the site to buy Ebbsfleet United, but after a year most of them realised that what they were sold wasn't necessarily what they got and most decided not to renew. It's not an exact comparison, but I'll give App.net at least another year before I decide whether it's worth my time any more than Twitter.
Does goog.require() resolve at run time or compile time?
I disagree, IMHO Pussy as a shorthand for sex reduces SEX to the sexual organs. Not the woman, the sex act. That may be unenlightened (we know sex can be so much more!) but not necessarily anti-woman.
You realize you just used the phrase "panty bunching quotient" in a thread about sexism? Not only does this severely undermine your point, it also makes you look surprisingly similar to the so-called confirmed idiots you're describing.
> In the mean time, the real problems still remain. The form factor is abjectly broken, mainly too thin for the purpose ... until they find a way to update the laws of physics, don’t hold your breath ... Want a realistic number of ports? Nope, VGA for a projector or monitor? Nope, too thin. Full height Ethernet? Not possible. Removable battery? Not a chance. Keyboard with actual travel? Guess why that isn’t on the cards? Any chance for expansion? Yeah right. Luckily, if you have a dongle fetish, Ultrabooks are for you, some even have a mini-VGA port that no one else does, how convenient. The entire form factor is simply dumb.

And yet Apple is selling millions of Ultrabooks under the name MacBook Air. Guess what they don't have: VGA ports, ethernet ports, removable batteries, a "keyboard with actual travel" (surprisingly comfortable to type on, actually). They're just as thin as other Ultrabooks. How is the form factor "abjectly broken" or "simply dumb" if Apple can sell so many?

If customers are unwilling to buy Ultrabooks, then obviously something is wrong, but it doesn't seem to fundamentally be a form factor issue. Maybe the high-end market has settled on Apple as the premium producer, and they're not even looking at PCs anymore. (I hope not. I work for Microsoft.) Maybe the Ultrabooks that are hitting the market are still just not that good. (Most of the ones I've tried felt like cheap crap, or had obvious deficiencies like big fan vents on the bottom....) Maybe there's something else holding them back. It's not simply a problem of lack of consumer interest in the form factor, though.
Splendid!

However I prefer http://facemakr.com/ when it comes to the variations of facial parts.
I've started blogging about the mobile startup space with the idea of hopefully developing a legitimate news resource. Feature stories of my own volition are one thing but "What to write about on a daily basis that hasn't already been covered exhaustively in TC, Mashable etc?" is the question that pops up in my mind most often. I'm still working on the editorial balance between the two. The last thing I want to do is piggyback off of other, more successful blogs.
You mean like the Lumia 900 (and every other Windows Phone 7 device) and Windows 8? They sure are taking care of legacy devices there.
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>Not to be a pedant, but historically computing was considered "womens work" in its initial stages.

It's becoming quite fashionable to bring this up lately, as if its inherently a trump card to the discussion. The obvious follow up to this statement should be to ask: why did the state of things change? Without any attempt at getting to the bottom of why things changed, the statement itself seems to create more ambiguity rather than clarity.
The 'allow getusermedia' policy is handled by the browser, not javascript.

It's possible that some day there will be a browser bug for bypassing it, but you can't just write javascript code that says "don't ask for permission".

Nowadays the majority of webcams also hard-wire their 'on' light, so the user would at least get an indication that the webcam is suddenly recording.
the problem is that your apps no longer work because most of them are based on online services which changed their interfaces and communication protocols by now but won't install on an older version of iOS. This is the case with iPhone 3GS too.
For $800? I'd probably try to find a 2011 Macbook Air.
Leaky bucket vs power law problems
Thanks a lot! We´ve put our hearts and souls in this.. Bootstrapping!
Tell HN: Looking to acquire IT company
Posting this for a friend that is not on HN, location east coast but would probably consider other locations:

"Our buyer client is seeking to acquire a Computer Hardware and/or IT Services Company (such as a company focusing on general IT, disaster recovery, data storage, cloud services, computer equipment, copier/printer equipment & services, etc.) in the Mid-Atlantic area. Our client is well-regarded in the marketplace (and owned by a much larger holding company). The Company has a long operating history and a great reputation in the industry. Our client is well capitalized and has the expertise and capabilities necessary to purchase and operate another business, having made several acquisitions in the past."
Canada says it will impose ‘iCrime’ registry if telcos don’t act soon
Well, unless you sync it and lose all the apps because their newest versions don't support the old iOS anymore and there is no way to "downgrade".

I agree with you that things don't need to be constantly updated and upgraded to be awesome, but there are certainly different ways to age.
I think this is just what every search engine does every day years ago. Anyway, very nice idea!
Here is a summary : http://api.tldr.io/tldrs/506aee4ec8f814a2370004fa

We are a new startup working on making content more accessible through summaries, here is the HN discussion : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4602377
default methods in interfaces will more or less mimic the same behavior.(sorta like mixins its not exactly the same but yeah lol)

class SomeClass implements Linq {}

public interface Linq {
public IEnumerable where(Func) { default implementation... }

public IEnumerable orderBy(Func) { default implementation... }
}
3D Printer "Repossed" After User Creates Gun
Samsung: Sorry It Took So Long to Sue Over iPhone 5
San Francisco and London Hack Days to build your own Geckoboard integrations
I just got an email from Nest. Subject? Oh, just "Experience 3.0 Software and a whole new Nest".

I am pleased.
I switched from Windows to Mac in 2004 when I started college. A year after I graduated, I switched to Linux, and I haven't looked back - and this article illustrates the reason as well as anything.

The lifecycle for Apple devices are far shorter than their PC and Android counterparts. When I abandoned my PPC Mac in 2009 and suffered through iTunes withdrawal (read: wrote off the ~$500 in music and movies I had bought), I switched to Amazon for media where, funnily enough, everything worked fine right in the browser on that same Mac. Still does to this day. I'm typing this on a Dell Laptop I got a year after that Mac, running Ubuntu, and the media I bought on Amazon works fine on this too.

It makes a ton of sense for Apple as a business to sell their products at a premium and more sense still to release premium products for people to buy every year. But it makes no sense as a consumer to keep buying them cycle after cycle. I may get another two years out of this laptop, but my Mac has long since become useless to me.
After reading that I understand that this J.Callahan character went on a bit of a rant, but I gotta say I don't think it warranted a public direct response. IMO Notch should have done what Callahan suggested and just written the post clarifying his views, not trying to be funny. This is the danger of twitter.

"Don't press send" -Herman Edwards
Symbolicating an iOS crash log without the original dSYM file
Types are not classes! Why do people feel the need to constantly drag out this scarecrow? Having tools to perform static analysis is nothing but a good thing, and you need type data to do a great deal of this. Perhaps your project requirements are such that you never require type checking for your JS, but I can say that it's saved my ass a number of times when working on very large code-bases, and definitely has sped up my development cycle when working on hairy code.

This is a type, not a class, taken from a Closure Compiler docs annotation example:

/**
* Enum for tri-state values.
* @enum {number}
*/
project.TriState = {
TRUE: 1,
FALSE: -1,
MAYBE: 0
};

Now I can require this type in my code with standard JSDoc, which is what the compiler uses anyway for type-checking. It makes my code self-documenting (the Closure Linter, should you use it, will complain if you omit descriptions and the like too, if you find yourself getting lazy):

/**
* Do something...
*
* @param state {project.TriState} The state ...
*/
function doSomething(state) {

If you are documenting your code, you already do this. And now you have static analysis out-of-the-box ... not bad!
According to the internet, iPad 1 16Gb WiFi was £429. Currently you can sell it on eBay for between £175-200, so there's a loss of £200-225 over the life time from brand new, so if you're unhappy you can sell it and cover at least half the cost of a new iPad if it's on the upgrade path.

It's an expensive toy, and it is a lot of money, but no one made anyone buy one.
I've seen the video. I made no claims that the bond between the sugars in sucrose made a different. I was mostly attempting to explain the difference.
The native Dart VM distinguishes between integers and floats for performance reasons, and (I think) lets you explicitly cast back and forth between them, and if, at some point, Chrome ships a Dart interpreter, developers will be able to take advantage of that. I assume this all gets turned into noops when it's translated to JS, so to some extent it's academic, but I think they were just trying to illustrate that Dart's innate notions of built-in types are different than JS's, and are kludged into JS types at compile time, whereas TS sits much closer to current JS environments.
Not sure about it. I have a similar problem - my website http://www.brainleg.com (structural java exception search engine for java developers) is currently supported only by ads, and it is very tempting to put some message to users who use adblocker. Yet as a visitor of a website I would be turned off by an aggressive message like this. Perhaps something more polite would make more sense?
True, apps backed by web services will die off. But that's been a risk at any time, even on the latest device. Those services don't exist for you. They can (and do) pull the plug at any time.

I think the way forward for old devices like the iPad 1 is through a stable OS, jailbreaks and web apps.
For music, I use sshfs to mount a folder from my own server at home, and mocp, a console based music player. Works great, and when I'm home, all the traffic is on my LAN, which is a plus. Would like to replace mocp, but it's the only linux based player I found without a database (folders + file names is enough of a database for me) and that is able to play flac gapless (no pause when switching from one flac to the next, important for continous music).
It was proposed long time ago alternative approach to the storing and using chain where only certain number of latest blocks are used. And obviously - longer partial chain - more trust.
how would you feel if you bought a car 7 years ago and tomorrow they tell you they stop selling petrol for it cause cars today moved to a different kind of fuel?
2 years is pushing it. People should not get new devices every second year to have a good experience. We should certainly not limit ourselves for the sake of the past, but it should be possible to build technology that doesn't officially "expire" in two years.
Notice that the author(s) of this article put an "(R)" symbol on "Microsoft Outlook". I believe that means the article got vetted by a committee or a lawyer. That, in turn, means the article is almost content free.
Social Login Buttons aren't worth it
Right, but then everyone else is under no obligation to modify their behavior for your comfort level. It works both ways. You explain yourself so that your POV can be understood by those whose behavior you want to change.
Been using this as an ST2 package for a while. Works great.
Publically calling someone a hypocrite does warrant a public direct response.
Housing on Mend, but Full Recovery Is Far Off
There is a history current state of sexist oppression, just as with racism. I didn't mean to imply that there is a mutual exclusion: racism and sexism are active parts of our culture and society, both today and in the past.

I only want to point out that racism and sexism, while related, are distinct and different. Referring to women in professional circles as girls is a very different kind of thing compared to calling a black man "boy", and attempts to draw parallels between the two are problematic, as we get into the territory of identity and experience erasure.
Maybe 'not by much,' but the difference is that sucrose as a 50/50 split of fructose-glucose, and HFCS has a 55/45 split. So if Fructose is bad for you, then HFCS has a higher concentration than sucrose (though only a 5% difference).
Whilst I think it is a bit hyperbolic to describe it as a paperweight, I think that one significant problem is the lack of security updates for the iPad 1. iOS6 patched a large number of CVEs http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5503 so any device which doesn't either go to iOS6 or get a maintenance release of iOS5 (which I'm not aware is planned) will be vulnerable to a variety of known security issues.
Don't burst a vein arguing over the definition of a profession.

The litmus test is whether or not an occupation has a policing organisation who dictates who is allowed to practice it. Lawyers, doctors, civil engineers are professions. Homeopathers, developers and ditch diggers are not.

I'll reference wikipedia, but its more of an unwritten rule.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profession#Formation_of_a_profe...
i believe this is what makes the difference with android though. there's always a strong community that usually comes up with roms a long after the OEM quit. Even on obscure chinese-made CPUs you can find today ROMs running the latest versions of android.
The Sudden, Mysterious Exit Of A Quora Cofounder Has Silicon Valley Baffled
Without having worked in finance or national level advertising, I'm afraid I don't have an answer for you other than how I perceive those industries, but that is neither here nor there.

As a datapoint, I cannot for the life of me understand why a woman wouldn't work in software other than the environment. I enjoy my work thoroughly. It pays well, its engaging, and I find it rewarding. Do I speak for my entire gender? Of course not, but neither does any other woman.
Right now I'm working in Chinatown. Phenomenal lunch options. Shortly, I will be moving near Times Square- I'm in two minds about it.
Yep, I had a similar train of thought. I liked the idea, and could spare the $50 to help them on their way.
> If you update an app to an iOS 6 version in iTunes on your computer and then try to sync your iPad 1, the old version of the app will just get removed from your iPad 1.
Am I missing something about all this price talk? The first 17 results for ultrabooks on newegg are under 800(with a couple < 600$) and the first 40 or so are under the 1200 that the 13" Air starts at...
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You're realistically only going to deploy a compiled script. The compiler supports goog.require/provide() without requiring any JS inputs, and core tools like closurebuilder.py (which has superseded calcdeps.py) build your dependency graph for you. The compiler uses the require/provide statements to ensure that all necessary symbols are indeed provided, and are only included once in the script.

For debugging purposes, `base.js' implements goog.require() in JavaScript. The implementation is naïve, it just turns foo.bar.Baz into foo/bar/Baz.js and tries to include it. This is good enough for running unit tests or fiddling around with experimental code, which are the two times you're going to use `base.js'.

http://code.google.com/p/closure-library/source/browse/trunk...
My kids still love my (their?) iPad 1. It still runs all of their (highly educational!) apps just fine. There are many, many use cases for the device that don't require iOS 6.
Intel's CPU prices (like all semiconductor products) have been going steadily downward for... basically forever. I don't have a clue what you're talking about.

I guess you're saying that Intel gets a higher margin for its parts per-die-area than fabless SoC vendors do, which is undeniably true. But generally that's considered a good thing for the company, not a bad one. Intel has competing parts in the market for almost everything they sell, and still manages to make a product that people are willing to pay significantly more money for.

It won't last forever, obviously. Eventually the desktop market will dissolve and servers and mobile SoCs will be all that's left. And Intel certainly seems to be aware of this, c.f. all the marketing effort being pushed into the various low-margin Atom lines.
Also wrong, 'Can the government shut it down?'

Should be:
Q. Who can shut it down?
A. Anyone who is willing to pay 51% of the monthly operating cost of all miners. Plus an initial investment to manufacture the hardware. Neither of these numbers are out of the range of Governments or Banks. And they probably won't be for a long time. This is the death of Bitcoin scenario that worries me most. And it seems no one is really worrying about it or taking it seriously.

edit: Here are the numbers someone calculated at the height of the first mining bubble [1]. We're currently at less than double the hashing power of then [2]. So a current rough estimate would be to double all those numbers.

[1] http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/a/1094

[2] http://bitcoin.sipa.be/speed-lin-ever.png
I'm guessing that the expenses probably still aren't bad compared to their income. Just one day's sales of Minecraft probably pays for the rent there. The furniture was a 1-time expense, etc.
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